POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Fibrous : Re: Fibrous Server Time
29 Jul 2024 16:23:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Fibrous  
From: Warp
Date: 21 Jul 2011 09:16:52
Message: <4e2826c4@news.povray.org>
Francois Labreque <fla### [at] videotronca> wrote:
> I seem to recall reading that in the Final Fantasy movie, they DID have 
> shots where each strand of hair was made up of  3 or 4 triangles, and 
> the model had 60,000 individual hairs, if I'm not mistaken.  Considering 
> that this movie was made over 10 years ago, one can safely assume that 
> rendering a similar shot today would be next to trivial.

  You forgot the first law of rendering: Computers get faster, rendering
times don't.

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                                                          - Warp


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